Canadian cultural heritage bundle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Sharon, author.

Butts, Edward, author.

Sadlier, Rosemary, author.

Series:

Quest Biography

Quest Biography ; v.48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadians--Biography.

Canadians.

Canada--Biography.

Canada.

Canada--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (674 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] : Dundurn Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history. In these three books we explore the cultural heritage that is at the roots of Canada's present-day multicultural society. In the lives of abolitionist Underground Railway hero Harriet Tubman; Metis revolutionary Louis Riel; and frontiersman Simon Girty, who adopted and respected Native culture long before the vast majority of white people, we discover that the struggle for inclusion and human rights has existed since the dawn of Canada's modern history. Includes Harri

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Louis Riel""; ""Prologue The Chain""; ""Part One Flint and Steel""; ""Part Two Blaze""; ""Part Three Embers""; ""Part Four Wildfire""; ""Epilogue The Legacy""; ""Chronology of Louis Riel (1844-1885)""; ""Sources Consulted""; ""Index""; ""Simon Girty""; ""1 War Drums""; ""2 Captivity""; ""3 Fort Pitt""; ""4 Border Troubles""; ""5 Rebellion""; ""6 Renegade""; ""7 Traps""; ""8 Brothers in Arms""; ""9 The Fate of Colonel William Crawford""; ""10 Blue Licks""; ""11 An Awkward Dilemma""; ""12 Simon and Catherine""; ""13 Return of the White Savage""; ""14 The Battle of the Wabash""

""15 Mad Anthony""""16 An Old Warrior Without a War""; ""Epilogue""; ""Chronology of Simon Girty""; ""Bibliography""; ""Harriet Tubman""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Harriet Tubman�s Beginnings""; ""2 Wedded Bliss""; ""3 Unearthing the Truth""; ""4 Freedom Seeking""; ""5 Leading Others to Freedom""; ""6 Arriving in Canada""; ""7 Life in St. Catharines""; ""8 Taking the Railroad into Canada""; ""9 The Civil War""; ""10 Successful Activism""; ""11 The End of the Line""; ""Epilogue""; ""Chronology of Harriet Tubman (Circa 1820�1913)""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Copyright""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed January 6, 2017).

ISBN:

9781459727915

1459727916

OCLC:

865334189